"This film deals with the weird, funny, and from time to time tragic world of shepherds, who remain in limbo between their beliefs and the modern world, struggling to learn or to teach where they belong. The way the film uses documentary-style, fiction, and fantastic elements aims to bring a different approach to cinema. I take it that The Cycle is a film which sustains the tendency to utilise tradition as in my previous films, in a different way and frame this time." - Derviş Zaim